28 Jan
2002
28 Jan
'02
4:06 p.m.
Toth,
Brian Knittel and I would be happy to put your S/370 documents up on
IBM1130.ORG. Its planned organization (i.e. the organization that is not
currently showing on it) includes sections for "related systems,"
primarily S/360 and earlier unit record (punched card) systems. But S/370
is very cool; that'd be great. (Besides, both of us have been looking
for S/370 manuals to help us understand how to administer MVS, VM, and CMS
on Hercules.)
If you need help scanning, I will try. I have a big backlog of things to
scan, but when I start a pile it goes pretty fast (practice!).
Norm Aleks
On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Tothwolf wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, William Donzelli wrote:
IBM docs really are very good and complete -
probably more so than
anyone else's. They are a pain in the neck to read, unless you can
speak the language.
The chips (SLTs) are not too bad. They can still be found on scrap IBM
boards. Interfacing to them is no big deal - the characteristics are
known.
With all the talk of IBM systems and docs today, I remembered I had some
IBM books put away. I found four 1.5" binders worth, and they all appear
to be related to S/370 operations and software. If there is any interest
in these, I'd be willing to scan them if I can find a place to host the
resulting files.
-Toth